Giraffe

There is fluidity and gracefulness in everything you do today. Allow patience to guide you.

-Giraffe

When Giraffe stretches her neck and peeks into your life:

It is time to allow your foresight to lead the way. You know what you have been predicting all along – so take action and follow through. Your gut instincts and clairvoyance are telling you something. Listen to your heart.

When Giraffe is your Animal Totem:

You have the gift of higher perception and inner awareness. Your gentleness and gracefulness in action are always apparent to others. You have learned to make your words count and share your awareness of your surroundings with others. You often know the future, can sense what is going to happen and what lies over the horizon. You should never become complacent and lose sight of the future. Life will become increasingly difficult until you set your sights once more on the path ahead. You also have very strong ties to family and friends, especially parents and children.

When Giraffe walks through your dreams:

To see a giraffe in your dream suggests that you need to consider the overall picture. Take a broader view on your life and where it is headed. The dream may also be a metaphor on how you are “sticking your neck out” for someone.

To dream that you are riding a giraffe represents your desire to stand out in the crowd. You want attention, but aren’t getting it.

To dream that a giraffe is running implies that you are avoiding the truth. It can also suggests that you saw something that you shouldn’t have seen.

Additional Associations for Giraffe:

Sees far into the future

Ability to reach things that are unreachable to others

Communication

Intuition

Ability to remain above the fray

The neck is the bridge between realms

Farsightedness

Foresight

Ability to see beyond expression and communication through body language

Teaches balance of sky and earth

Strong relationships

Strong inner perceptions

Resourcefulness

Cleverness

Patience

Elegance

Gracefulness

Cooperation

Intelligence

Perception

Vision

Intuition

Mystery

Beauty

Protection

Discernment

Gentleness of Spirit

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12 Responses to Giraffe

In this dream, there are at least three, but I felt there were more, giraffes to the left of the road I was driving on (northerly direction). It was night time with an orange sky, darkened because of no moon, but still aglow with the type of light that can color the sky leaving only silhouettes. The shadows of the giraffes moved slow and lumbering across my visual field off in the distance. As I approached the edge of the town where they were housed I wondered how they remained docile enough to stay there, after all they had greater mobility than humans… As I drove nearer to their compound, it seemed the giraffes were more alert. For some reason I decided to back away returning back down the road I had just driven. I then decided to return to the area of the giraffes. This time the giraffes were even more alert to my presence and in their shadowy way moved closer to the roadway. It was then I became aware of their full ability to walk wherever they wanted and that they were not confined to a ‘pen’ or zoo-like structure. The head of one approached my vehicle, bringing its face within arm’s distance, its long neck bending to get a closer view. I remember having no fear, but an expanding sense of wonderment, opening my heart to the possibilities of contact and allowing for whatever was to come.

It was then I realized the fact these were not true giraffes, but the shadows of the real ones who were asleep somewhere else. These shadows moved throughout the neighborhood protecting those who may have the giraffe as a dream totem. The shadows were more powerful in appearance than the speckled bodied ones seen in the daylight. There was nothing to be distracted by just the full intention of their energy, a far-sightedenss, interest, and a sense of protection I have not felt in the human realm.

I have known of my interest in giraffes, their beauty and grace. This is the first time they have appeared in my dreams. Thank you brother and sister giraffes.

I had this really intense dream/vision. I was going to a gathering and we were climbing stairs when we finally reached up stairs we had small conversation and then I felt a weird feeling so I stepped out on a balcony and I began to fly and under me was large area of holds with green muddy grass as I started to drop altitude my rightffoot felt for depth on the ground and in this round clear water not muddy at all there was a giraffe head big and so calm but old and I felt like everything paused we looked into each other soul and then I brought myself a lil higher to fully see the giraffe and I hard someone call my name so I turned around went back to the balcony and there was fear so I flew down the stairs and hid behind a large tv. I could hear them looking for me so I finally came out and flew over them out into the open and came back into my body. What does this dream mean?

It was a very weird day under the last full moon. Truly, one of the strangest days I can recall in my life. The day kept doing 180’s so fast my head was spinning. I went home and pulled the covers over my head and closed my eyes. Lucid, immediately I saw a clear image of a giraffe happily licking my face. Its face was so close up that at first I thought it was a camel. But as it moved backwards, I saw its spots and neck. I’ve never paid attention to giraffes before. Also, I’ve been prompted to observe the constellation “Camelopardalis”, which represents a giraffe.

I had a dream that I saw some kind of experimental giraffe. It was like the body of a giraffe with the neck of another different giraffe sewn on, and it was very sick. As it stood up, I saw that there was thick smoke near the ceiling, and the giraffe was coughing and it couldn’t breathe. I remember being really worried about it. It suffered some kind of heart attack that made its chest twitch violently, but I kind of felt it too. It was really weird.

I was praying for someone who was sick and i saw an image of a Giraffe.
That sight has never left me for almost a year now, until i decided to do
a survey on Giraffe. That is how i got to know your site.
please help me with its interpretation. thank you. CFI.

At Disney’s Animal Kingdom on springbreak a giraffe followed our tram all the way to the gate. The workers commented that it was very unusual. I did get some fantastic pictures of it. Earlier today I noticed a gift I had gotten from my Mother-in-law a few years ago. It is a pewter giraffe with a shell for a back. The following year she gave me a matching snail. She is the daughter of a healer, although she does not believe in this sort of thing. I have now put both figures on a shelf in my view. I feel like they are trying to tell me something, not sure what. Frogs have been on my mind too, and I was given a handmade santa frog ornament today that I will put next to the giraffe and snail

I had a dream that i got a pet giraffe and somehow i hurt it by putting metal on its foot and it almost cut off its foot. was weird as i love animals. would ever dream of hurting an animal please tell me what this dream means

IN MY DREAM A GIRAFFE KNOCKED ME DOWN AND WAS LOVING ON ME LIKE IT WAS A GIANT PUPPY. THE GIRAFFE HAD MY WHOLE HEAD IN ITS MOUTH AND WAS LICKING MY FACE AND MAKING GRUNTING HAPPY SOUNDS. I KNEW IT LOVED ME AND WAS SHOWING ENORMOUS AFFECTION FOR ME. MY COMPANIONS THOUGHT IT WAS ATTACKING ME AND WERE GOING TO TRY TO “SAVE” ME AND I WAS LAUGHING TOO HARD ENJOYING THE GIRAFFES AFFECTION TO BE ABLE TO TELL THEM I WAS FINE. THIS WAS LOVE NOT AGGRESSION. IM NOT SURE HOW GIRAFFE SYMBOLISM IS APPLIED IN THIS DREAM. I FEEL SPECIAL AND LOVED.

Hi Julie: I believe your dream is about acceptance and your willingness to be yourself. Loving who your are can often be difficult under peer pressure. So often our friends have expectations of us and when we don’t live up to that the try to bend us back into the fold. Know that it is safe to be yourself and that it is up to your friends to keep up with your growth (or not).